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🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird hummus. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:12.0 | What happens when a simple fight turns into something deadly? |
0:19.6 | On July 1st, 1978, a young man was out for the evening |
0:23.8 | and got into an altercation with a passing stranger, a fight that ended up costing him his life |
0:29.4 | and creating a 10-year-long cold case. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, |
0:36.5 | sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
0:40.8 | Andrew P. born in 1956 and also known as Andrew Ronald Smith, was 22 years old when he moved from Victoria to Perth in 1975 and began working as a State Energy Commission laborer. |
0:55.5 | Living alone in a Salvation Army hostel, Andrew was known to be a casual drinker at many |
1:01.1 | of the Perth inner city hostels and was often seen at the Paddington, the Criterion, the Imperial, |
1:08.6 | the Railway, the Globe, and the Victoria. |
1:12.6 | No one really thought anything of this new addition to the area, |
1:16.5 | and Andrew kept a relatively low profile and kept his head down. |
1:20.8 | After only a few years in Perth, tragedy struck when on July 1, 1978, |
1:27.0 | Andrew P. was seen drinking at the Paddington Hotel's infamous |
1:30.4 | basement tube bar, left at about 9 p.m., and began to make his way to a nearby betting shop |
1:37.0 | to collect his earnings. At 9.30 p.m. he was seen talking to a newsboy just about 500 meters from the bar when an unknown man approached him and told him not to hassle the boy. |
1:50.7 | A witness heard Andrew tell the stranger, what's it got to do with you, before a short fistfight took place in which Andrew, much larger than the other man, prevailed, and the stranger ran off |
2:03.2 | muttering about getting even. |
2:06.6 | Everything seemed fine until that stranger came back around the corner seconds later, armed |
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